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Vowel harmony

Index of SIL publications on Vowel harmony listed by country.

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General works

• Pearce, Mary. 2008. "Vowel harmony domains and vowel undershoot."  

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Cameroon

• Scruggs, Terri R. 1980. "Vowel harmony in Yamba."

Chad

• Pearce, Mary. 2003. Vowel harmony in Kera (Chadic).  

Côte d’Ivoire

• Dawson, Keith. 1975. "L’accord vocalique en tépo."

Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Koehler, Loren Scott. 1995. An underspecification approach to Budu vowel harmony.
• Kutsch Lojenga, Constance. 1992. "Vowel harmony in Alur: On the crossroads of two systems."
• Leitch, Myles Francis. 1996. Vowel harmonies of the Congo Basin: An Optimality Theory analysis of variation in the Bantu zone C.
• Morgan, David J. 1991. Vowel harmony, syllable structure and the causative extension in a Bantu language - Lobala: a government phonology account.

Ghana

• Cahill, Michael. 1996. "ATR harmony in Kɔnni."
• Cahill, Mike. 1999. "Vowel harmony in Kɔnni."
• Snider, Keith L. 1984. "Vowel harmony and the consonant | in Chumburung."
• Snider, Keith L. 1989. "Vowel coalescence in Chumburung: An autosegmental analysis."

Kenya

• Larsen, Iver A. 1984. "Vowel harmony in Koony."

Nigeria

• Casali, Rod. 2003. "An introduction to ATR vowel harmony in African languages."
• Savage, T. Dale. 1987. "Some abstract features of Kwa vowel harmony: An autosegmental approach to Engenni, Igbo, Akan, and Yoruba."

Sudan

• Hall, Beatrice L. and Eluzai M. Yokwe. 1981. "Bari vowel harmony: The evolution of a cross-height vowel harmony system."
• Schröder, Helga and Martin Schröder. 1987. "Vowel harmony in Toposa."

Togo

• Anderson, Coleen G. 1999. "ATR vowel harmony in Akposso."

Americas

Mexico

• Spotts, Hazel. 1953. "Vowel harmony and consonant sequences in Mazahua (Otomi)."

Venezuela

• Bakshi, Indira and Doris L. Payne. 1998. "Vowel harmony and transitive verb clauses in Panare: where are the consonant-initial roots?."

Asia

Indonesia

• Quick, Phil. 2000. "A non-linear analysis of vowel harmony and vowel harmony blocking in Pendau."

Malaysia

• Kroeger, Paul R. 1992. "Vowel harmony systems in three Sabahan languages."
• Robinson, Laura C. 2006. "Vowel harmony in Borneo?: an examination of vowel changes in Tindal Dusun."  

Philippines

• Harrison, K. David, Katharine Merow and Rachel Shorey. 2006. "Sonority contour preferences in Philippine languages."  

Pacific

Papua New Guinea

• Pence, Alan R. 1971. "Kunimaipa vowel harmony."